Coffee pot and filter



C..H. HUXPORD COFFEE POT AND FILTER.

(No Model.)

Patented May 1,

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STATES COFFEE POT AND FILTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters 'Patent No. 519,020, dated May 1,1894.

Application filed December 19, 1892.

Serial No. 455,721. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES I-I. HUXFORD, a citizen of the United Statesof America, and a resident of the city of Brooklyn, in the county ofKings and State of New York, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Filtering Sacks or Bags for Ooee- Pots, dac., of whichthe following is a full, clear, and exact description. t

This invention consists of a filtering appliance for coffee and itscombination with a coffee-pot, all substantially as hereinafterdescribed.

In the drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is atransverse, vertical and central section of the liltering appliance,placed and supported in a coffee-pot; shown also in similar section butonly its upper portion. Fig. 2 is a similar view to Fig. 1, but varyingfrom it as hereinafter appears. Fig. 3 is an enlarged section indetail.

In the drawings, A represents the coffeepot.

B is the spout and O is the cover of the pot, all as usual and Wellknown, and the pot, otherwise and as is common, has, for instance, aninward projecting bead a entirely surrounding it, to serve as a rest forthe filtering appliance of this invention, or other well known filteringappliances.

D is a ring or band of sheet metal, or of other suitable material,comparatively narrow in width, and of adiameter considerably less thanthat of the pot at its mouth or open end. This band D has a lateral andoutward projecting and surrounding flange E, at one of its open ends.This band D is of a diameter suitable, when it is placed in, to rest onthe inside bead a, of the pot.

F is a filtering sack or bag made of cloth, or other material suitablefor the filtering purpose for which it is to be used, as for instance,when to be used for leaching and filtering coffee of coarse unbleachedcotton cloth. This bag, at its open end, is of a diameter, substantiallysuch as to fit, preferably closely, the band, on its outer side, and thebag, by its open end, is placed on the ianged end of the band by pullingor drawattachment is such as to practically resist' any accidentaldetachment of it from the band, in the practical and proper use of theappliance for filtering, as wished.

If desired, Fig. 2, the pendent sack may be i pushed through the metalband at its flanged end and thus made to line the inner side of theband, and all .without affecting in any material or practical degree,the hold or bite as it were, of the flange on the sack.

Preferably, the open mouth of the bag has an inside stitched hem b,which, with the bag on the band, preferably, is in contact with theouter side of the band, and all for the reason, that the exposed edge clof the hem at rest on the ange of the band efficiently aids in thesecurity of the attachment of the bag to the band as above explained.

The filtering sack used in a coffee-pot preferably depends from theflanged end of the band, Fig. 1, although as in Fig. 2, it may dependfrom the opposite end of the band. The sack depending as shown, Fig. 1,gives a greater depth of sack as compared with that when the sackdepends as in Fig. 2, and further Fig. 1, a space G is left about theband, and the band may extend in height practically to the top of thepot, thus giving increased capacity to the appliance for coffee. Thespace G about the band is convenient to receive the flange C2 of thecover. Again the iiange of theband preferably is of a diameter toclosely '-t the inside of the coee pot. v

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to-secureby Letters yPatent, is Y A filtering appliance for coffee pots Jac.,pot, substantially as described, for the purcornposed of a band or ringhaving an outposes speeied.

Ward projecting Hange and an outer bearing CHARI ES H HUXFORD face abovesaid ange, and of a ltering bag J 5 havnga mouth fitting over Said outerbear- Witnesses:

ing face and engaging said flange of said K. DURFEE, ring, incombination With the flange a of the O. M. SHAW.

